The quality of life simply means the standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or group. Japan is one of the world’s most successful democracies and largest economies. Japan is a small country of about 377,962 km². It is an island nation in north-eastern Asia. It is the 10th largest country in the world by population of 127 million. Mexico is a region in North America with a population of 127.5 million which is .5 more than Japan’s population. The country's total area is 1,972,550 km², 5 times larger than Japan.As you can already see, we’ll compare the quality of life between Japan and Mexico throughout this essay. Japan’s government is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government. The legal voting age in Japan’s non-compulsory electoral system is 18 years. Japanese political system has three types of elections: general elections held every 4 years, elections to the House of Councillors held every 3 years and local elections held …show more content…
When you look at the quality of education, Japan is a top performing country scoring an average score of 540 in reading literacy, maths and science in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). While Mexico only scored 417, much lower than the OECD average 497. This means that Japan has a better quality of education by PISA score of 123. The quality of education affects the employment and unemployment rates in both countries. Since Japan is a top performing country in education, it has a much higher employment rates than Mexico and the OECD average. 73% of individuals in Japan aged between 15 to 64 have a paid job, higher than the OECD average,whereas Mexico only has 60% people aged 15 to 64 with a paid job. In Japan, women have more chances of being employed than in Mexico. Japan has about 82% of men and 64% of women with paid work compare to Mexico which has about 78% of men and only 44% of women with paid
Japanese education is very influential to the youth of Japan. It can affect students future and plays a big role in society today. Some people believe that students in Japan are better educated than the students in United States. While some people think this is not true, there are many strong reasons that prove this is accurate.
Other statistical important values are the unemployment rate and life expectancy. The unemployment rate amount Japanese is 4.0%, whereas the United States is 7.4% (Find-the-data, 2015). This is one of the reasons the Japanese government is able to keep down costs. However, the average life expectancy of Japanese citizens is 83.33 years to U.S. 78.84 years, which would require Japan to care for their citizen’s longer (Find-the-data, 2015). This can financially impact the government with increased expenses and costs to an aging nation.
The story "Harrison Bergeron" is about George and Hazel Bergeron in future america. It was the year 2081, and everyone the the Bergeron's world are equal. The government uses "handicaps" in order to make everyone "equal", which consist of masks, clown noses, sound transmitters in the ears of citizens, and bags of birdshot tied around the necks, arms, legs, or wherever, depending on how strong or intelligent the person is. Obviously this society of total equality is wrong and taken way too far. The short story “Harrison Bergeron,” written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., teaches its readers that total equality can be harmful! This sentence will be the last sentence of your first paragraph.
Both nations share similarities for example their population pyramids are cups, the life quality of life is high due to excellent freedom house index scores, and high employment rate of 90%. They have their differences for example the rate of crime is worse in Australia than Japan and their size and population is inverted with one another. Japan is fairly
Mexico is a lovely country just south of the United states. The Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean are on the borders of this country. It is approximately two million square kilometers. The two main climates are tropical and desert, which are two very hot climates. It is plentiful with natural resources such as gold, timber, zinc, and silver. There are approximately two hundred million people who inhabit Mexico, and the predominant language spoken is spanish. The vast majority of people follow a christian faith, but it is not forced upon the citizens. The laws of Mexico is for the most part similar to the United states, but can slightly differ.
In 2013 and 2014, applicants for jobs faced greater competition. In Japan, statistics have indicated the average length that an employee stays at their job has changed slightly from 1985 to 2005. Hence this illustrates that individuals on average are not staying with a particular job for as long as they used to. This is due to the increase in competitiveness in the job market. The unemployment rate of Australia was 6.4% in January 2015 with the comparison of Japan’s at 3.7% in December of 2013. These percentages have a significant variance when stating the differences in population sizes, indicating that Japan has more job opportunities than Australia, as a much smaller percentage of their population is unemployed. Unemployment is higher in regional areas of Australia. The youth unemployment rate is 6.4% (Nov. 2014), whereas Australia’s youth unemployment rate is far higher at 13.20% (Sept. 2014) indicating that youth unemployment is fairly high in Australia illustrating the significant difference between Australia and Japan’s youth. The majority of Japan’s workforce is located in the area of business and engineering workers and manufacturing workers, whereas most of the individuals employed in Australia are in the service industries. This shows that the job sector is
Mexico is 208 years old, established on September 16,1810, meaning the United States was founded for longer. Government The government system in the United States and in Mexico is similar and different. In the United States, the Senate has 2 senators in each state. The total amount of Senators in the United States is 100 members.
Mexico and the United States are countries that have several aspects to relate and compare the differences that exist between them. Each country has its own characteristics, and is a way of being able to identify to other countries. In this case, Mexico and United States are independent parents with an extensive history where we can know aspects of each one of them. Mexico is characterized by being a country of religious traditions and U.S. for being the first world power. In addition to the above, it is important to highlight the differences existing between the countries of Mexico and United Stated as well as their similarities.
One of the biggest differences was how much later Japan industrialized than Britain, beginning in the 1750s, and the rest of Western Europe, which gradually took place over the 1800s. Since Western Europe industrialized earlier than Japan, their industrialization had an effect on the rest of the West, as well. Japan was far more isolated pre-industrialization than Western Europe, which meant that they were much farther behind the West at the time that they began their industrialization. They also had to catch up to the West in a much shorter period of time, which they were able to accomplish. Some of their reasons for industrialization were also slightly different than the West. Japan did not have the resources of West Europe, which made their industrialization different than the West's. The main reason that they did industrialize was pressure put on them from the West-- when America forcibly opened trade with Japan, they were forced to catch up with them in order to succeed. While there were similarities in the conditions of factories, Western Europe and Britain's factories passed their factory acts before industrialization in Japan even began. Therefore, conditions in the West were improving for workers before industrialization had taken place in Japan. Unlike Western Europe, Japan did not have countries which they were able to exploit at the
Japan’s unemployment rate of about 4% opposed to the U.S. unemployment rate of close to 10%. Even the financial debt to GDP ration is an advantage, and debt in the private sector has not increased unlike the U.S. and European countries, (Time, 2009). In addition, since Japan is a huge exporter and with the U.S. demand going downward, the international balances and growth declined especially as the dollar value dropped and the yen surged. •
There is a general upwards trend in unemployment in Japan, directly contrasting to Australia’s declining unemployment rate. Australia’s current unemployment rate is 6.0% and Japans is 3.7%
The country is a constitutional monarchy and although Japan has an Emperor, power is mainly within the Prime Minister and Diet’s control. Therefore, the Emperor is more a ceremonial figure. The National Diet is Japan’s bicameral legislature and is dominated by the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan and the conservative Liberal
The Japanese economy, the 2nd largest in the world, accounts for 7.1% Global World GDP, at US$4.6 triliion and a per capita income of approximately US$33,550 (World Bank 2006). As a result of globalisation, literacy levels are at 99% and the general living standards of the
Abstract: Some of the demographics of Japan are discussed. It’s listed that Japan’s official language is Japanese and they support a population of 127,176 million as of 2010. Japan has a climate that varies from the Southern tropic to the cool temperate of its north and a rugged mountainous terrain. The Japanese American immigrants were affected by the Immigration Act of 1965 which increased the amount of immigrants though not to the extent that it increased the other Asian American groups. They were also greatly affected by World War II when many were forced into camps.
Japans history dates back almost 53,000 years and is filled with interesting and fascinating events. Most of Japans actions have left the major world powers in the world stunned. The base of this amazing country is astonishing just by itself. The base is a bunch of active and large under water volcanoes. Japans uniqueness from the rest of the world ranges from its culture to its very interesting history to the change in government every few hundred years and their trading dilemma with petroleum and their assortment of fish that they export. Japan as a country is so very appealing and kind compared to the rest of the world its no wonder that it’s geographically separate from the rest of the world.